A team of researchers at Imperial College London has revealed after its latest study that the wiring in the brains of humans and birds is almost same.

A typical bird brain's map has been developed by the group. The same shows how a connection is shared all together by different areas in order to process information.

The map was compared to brain diagrams for distinct mammals, including humans. The team found that the regions essential for high-level cognition like problem solving and long-term memory were wired equal to the brain's other areas in a similar manner.

However, the brains of mammals and birds have been evolving down different paths for more than hundreds of millions of years.

It is now being claimed that a common blueprint was discovered by the evolution for high-level cognition in development of the brain.

In earlier studies as well, birds were proved to possess many skills like capacity for complex social reasoning and for crafting and using tools, the report found.

"Birds have been evolving separately from mammals for around 300 million years, so it is hardly surprising that under a microscope the brain of a bird looks different from a mammal", the study author, Professor Murray Shanahan, from the Department of Computing.